The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-06
LIVING IN NEW YORK
Unreasonable and Reasonable
Expenditures.
WAYS OF THE SPENDrHRIFT.
The Inference Between Him and n
Young Man OF Sense and
Economical Habits.

a day does it cost the average man 10
live in New York;" asked stranger tue
other evening.
From 81 to $50" was the not very
satisfactory reply. There is no place IN
America where some men spend more
money for living expenses and others
exist upon less than New YORK. The
stranger, however, referred to men who
keep up appearances and have reason
ably good time. Here is the story OF
the davis experience of two OF them.
Young Dives, whose father left him
fortune and nothing to do except to
spend the income from it, has suite OF
rooms not far from Broadway, at that
particularly attractive point where Del
monico's and other resorts are located.
dis rooms cost him $5OOO year ms
sole servant Is a valet, who keeps his
masters clothes in order and his own
mouth closed.
SUCH A LUXURY
costs Dives $50 a month, ali his old
clothes and occasionally a present OF
money. The young man, like the yearly
increasing multitude of bloods OF leisure
in the metropolis, gets up about noon,
puts on his carefully brushed matutlnal
suit, and at once begins TO spend money.
A glass of Congress water Is the nrst
thing upon which he lays out 1unos.
Then he takes a walk If 1t is pleasant.
Every fine day, at noon or tnereaoouts
YOU will find Dives and score OF MS Tx
hat
third and Forty second Streets. DIVES
meets a friend and they go somewhere
to breakfast. Your rich young man OF
leisure has horror of eating alone. he
gets a dainty breakfast at some fashion
able restaurant. 1t costs him about 50
and he manages to kill great deal OF
time eating it. Then he succeeds IN
disbursing a dollar for cigars. he
saunters over to his club, sits down,
reads the morning papers and gazes out
of the window at the ladies, who by
that time are abroad on shopping expe-
ditions. Having
KILLED SOME MORE TINE
in that way, Dives sends to a fashion
able stable from which he hires turnouts
at an expense which never falls below
$3.50 per month. He drives out to the
Casino in Central Park or to one of the
road houses, meets some one he knows
and asks them to have drink. The
first round costs so cents. Another
friend drops in on them and they have
small bottle. Friend No. buys the
cigars and Dives purchases another
small bottle of wine. Then he shakes
hands with his companions, orders up
his carriage, throws the hostler hall
dollar and continues his ride. When he
gets home he would find, if he ever
stopped TO figure up his expenses, that
he had spent about $3.50 TO- incidents
on the excursion. Sometimes he puts
on his afternoon suit and strolls over to
the CLUB for q game of Billiards. To add
interest TO the affair, he plays for
wager OF 81 a game and the drinks. He
loses, say two games and two rounds OF
drinks and gets away with IS more. But
he hasn't begun to spend money yet. He
invites his friend of the billiard game to
dine with him and they separate to
dress for dinner. Dives puts on an
evening dress suit, which, with a rich
cape overcoat for evening wear, has cost
him $3.50 and helped to swell his tailor'S
bill to 81 900 a year, walks slowly over
to a fashionable restaurant, meets his
friend and engages in the delightful task
of ordering dinner. lt is just an IN
formal affair, with u quart OF claret, a
quart of champagne and some cordial
for a final tip, but when the pair have
consumed it and an hours time and the
obsequious waiter has presented the
check Dives finds his bill to be about
$50. The friend reciprocates by inviting
Dives to the theatre. They hire a cab,
go to the play, see one act and then go
out to see a man. They find him,
several of him, in fact. Dives opens
quart bottle of champagne ana they
have drink all around at an expense
of $3.50.
WHEN THE PLAY is OVER
the pair drive to the Hoffman house, see
more friends, have more wine and spend
more money. Midnight approaches
and the suggestion of light lunch
meets with approval. Dives conducts
the party to q cafe and devotes 81 to the
light lunch. His friend and his friends
friend treat, and by that time the young
blood of the men is coursing through
their veins in such manner as to make
anything like slow time abhorrent to
them and they conclude to repair to
some point where faro Or poker will
give Gl6m tho IGoL VI cAClGSLucnbs Olf6S
doesn't lose very heavily, and when he
goes home at 8 O'Clock in the morning
he would find, if he ever devoted his
energies to such a vulgar task as com
putting his expenses, that it had cost
him $3.50 to get through the day, to say
nothing of his regular expenses for rent,
clothing. carriage hire, etc. This esti-
mate does not include expensive luxur-
les st odd but not frequent seasons.
Take, for example, the case of Ives, the
young Napoleon of Wall Street. He was
not gentleman of elegant leisure like
the class to which Dives belongs, but a
schedule Of only part OF his liabilities,
covering short period of expenditure,
showed that he owed $3.50 for clothing.
1884 for hosiery, S1,96S for jewelry, 1882
for silver-ware, $40 for flowers and SIG
for hats. $3.50
It costs Dives $4,000 a year to live
and be doesn't consider that he is ex-
travagant, for there are scores of young
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